NSW’s Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, has labelled federal-state financial relations “a mess” and demanded fundamental reform. From The SMH:
The NSW government has appointed an expert panel to review federal financial relations from a state perspective. It will identify ways to improve the current system and make it more reliable.
Mr Perrottet said the aim was to promote a more dynamic form of “bottom-up federalism” driven by the states. “In our three-tier federal system financial relations are a mess,” Mr Perrottet said…